MySQL Contracts in Cheshire

MySQL
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 2 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.34% 0.97% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.27% 5.56% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £342 £371 £225
25th Percentile £353 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +32.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £403 £469 £375
90th Percentile £410 - -
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £410
% change year-on-year -1.11% +9.76% -18.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 88 90 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.17% 17.37% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 73 47
10th Percentile £319 £358 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +5.56% -16.28%
75th Percentile £488 £585 £583
90th Percentile £580 £610 £628
North West median daily rate £448 £465 £480
% change year-on-year -3.76% -3.02% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £43.00 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £44.74 £40.00
% change year-on-year -32.95% +11.85% -14.13%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -14 1 £350 -13.85%
Warrington - 1 £410 - 5
MySQL
North West

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle